Marcos Ambrose was sitting in third place with 20 laps to run, but with others coming on fresher tyres he slipped back to 13th at the finish missing his third-straight top-10 finish by only three laps.

“We fought all night. We didn’t have the fastest car, but we got ourselves in a good position,” said Ambrose.

“If there hadn’t been another restart there, I just needed clean air on the nose and when I didn’t get it there on that last restart I was in trouble.